Number of posts : 726Location : a secret location in the Nevada desertRegistration date : 2007-03-19

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:58 pm

True, that's the Nazi Germany (1939-1945) version of it...but that is in fact the same one Ron used to wear!

NICO

Number of posts : 6Registration date : 2007-03-22

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:54 am

I think they are all great i love the last one ,... that is classic ....

StoogesMySpaceAdmin wrote:

I hope ya dig it. Feel free to use it.

Here's my idea for a biker jacket...this would be cool merch in my opinion.

NICO

Number of posts : 6Registration date : 2007-03-22

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:00 am

and the swastika was stolen from the indians peace symbol which is turned backwards ... it used to be a peace symbol ... i would wear that jacket .. Ron had or still has? some really cool... Nazi shit ... that is worth a fortune now .... I hope he still has it .... and didn't trade it with his strat lol

1969baby

Number of posts : 25Age : 29Registration date : 2007-03-16

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:18 am

NICO wrote:

and the swastika was stolen from the indians peace symbol which is turned backwards ... it used to be a peace symbol

Haha, you beat me to it! It's not like Hitler actually invented the thing. The swastika would present a bit of a problem if I were to actually wear it, but it doesn't really offend me.

Stoogemeister

Number of posts : 40Registration date : 2007-06-27

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:15 pm

In Germany you'd be arrested for wearing a jacket with a swastika on the back. It's illegal there to display that symbol in any form today. Even the German version of the Castle Wolfenstein PC game had to be changed so that it featured no swastikas.

The swastica has got a fascinating history, as someone else mentioned, going back centuries. In the early 1930's it was quite a fashionable symbol, even Coke in the USA were using it on promotional cards and key rings:

I used this one for a road disc where I compiled the best of the first two discs with The Weirdness. Great for road trips!

Nice work, all of them.

world's forgotten boy

Number of posts : 275Registration date : 2008-04-12

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:21 pm

NICO wrote:

and the swastika was stolen from the indians peace symbol which is turned backwards ... it used to be a peace symbol ... i would wear that jacket .. Ron had or still has? some really cool... Nazi shit ... that is worth a fortune now .... I hope he still has it .... and didn't trade it with his strat lol

Your wrong, the nazi's took it from the vikings and the early norsemen who used it in their art to represent the sun... if you look at old pots and norseart, you often find the swastika with the same angle and direction as the nazi's used. They meant that there wasen't anything more "aryan" than the swastika, as the scandivians had used it for hundreds of years before christianity came to the north...

I would turn the swastika the other way around in the denim jacket Dave

I don't think the swastika as the Nazis did should be shown connected to the Stooges....cuz it was mostly Ron using it! don't have the idea he wanted to show his sympathy with the Nazis...by wearing it.

like the Riot picture! although this picture still looks pretty sweet..

Nadja

Number of posts : 2607Registration date : 2007-12-16

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:48 pm

I suppose I can testify to the 'shock-value' of this kind of symbolism. at the very beginning of my Stooges infatuation, when I didn't know anything about Ron apart from the unprecedented and overwhelmig effect the sound of his guitar had on me, I really wasn't best pleased to find out he had a penchant for 'Nazi' stuff! However these feelings didn't last long...

I was so unenlightened in those days, I didn't even know who was who on the cover of the first album (except for Iggy). I reasoned that the two guys with similar hair-colour had to be the two bruddas ...

world's forgotten boy

Number of posts : 275Registration date : 2008-04-12

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:40 pm

Nadja wrote:

The swastika is actually an ancient Indian symbol.

Not the swastika used by the nazis... It's the same as the ones used by the vikings, same direction... and the oldest artifact with the swastika, is on a ancient viking pot... so it's not proved to be originally Indian...

Nadja

Number of posts : 2607Registration date : 2007-12-16

Subject: Re: My Stooges photoshop art Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:20 pm

far as I know, the earliest use of the swastika symbol, in whatever form, has been traced back to India ... but maybe I'm getting mixed up, or thinking of something else after all